IOS – Saving GPS Coordinates in Contacts

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I live in a country which has few registered Apple Maps addresses.
All that i want is to store GPS coordinates in contacts to use those at the Reminders app.
I came from diverse forums like this and this
but it seems that there isn't a final answer to this issue.

This is what i tried so far.

  • If i set an URL field with the following text maps://=&q=35.000000,-119.000000 it seems that solves the problem since if i tap on that url it redirects me to that specific coordinate in the apple maps app. But it doesn't work at reminders since reminders looks at the address field instead of the URL one.
  • So i set the coordinates at the address field then (street section) like the following 35.000000,-119.000000 which seems that solves the problem but there is a mandatory country name that breaks everything because when i tap it finds the coordinates plus the country which returns a completely different location.

Any extra help is appreciated. Is simple, all that i need is to use the Reminders app location feature with specific contacts GPS coordinates, not geocoding address ones.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

According to Apple's developer documentation about their MapLinks iOS/macOS supports map urls via a web link (using http or https) to maps.apple.com - so to link to GPS coordinates one uses:

https://maps.apple.com/?ll=50.894967,4.341626

Also just to add it seems that 'geo:' maps scheme standardised in RFC5870 sadly doesn't appear to work on iOS/macOS. Although according to the geouri.org there is some support in Android, and other applications.

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